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1. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk : the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
Printed in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:
143 pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

2. A book of architecture : containing designs of buildings and ornaments / by James Gibbs.

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Creator:
Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:
printed MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:
[4], xxviii pages, 150 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Polymetis, or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists : being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another ... / by the Revd. Mr. Spence.

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Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
vi, 361, [1] p., : port., ill., XLI pl. (part fold.) ; 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The history of England / written in French by Mr. Rapin de Thoyras ; translated into English, with additional notes, by N. Tindal ...

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Creator:
Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661–1725
Date:
1743-1747
Physical Description:
4 v. in 5 : ill., geneal. tables, maps, ports. 40 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Ædes Walpolianæ, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
xxxv, 143 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Letters and memorials of state : in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, part of the reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's usurpation / written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, the famous Sir Philip Sydney, and his brother Sir Robert Sydney ..., Robert, the second earl of Leicester ..., Philip, lord viscount Lisle ... and of his brother, Colonel Algernon Sydney ... ; together with letters of the other ministers of state, with whom they held a correspondence ; the whole containing the antient state of Ireland, with characters and private memoirs ; also, the antient government of the principality of Wales, the wars between the Spaniards, and the States-General in the Netherlands, negotiations between the courts of England, France, &c., the intriegues of the several courts of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First ; with other remarkable transactions, both at home and abroad, during those times, not hitherto known, faithfully transcribed from the originals ; whereunto is added, genealogical and historical observations, also memoirs of the lives and actions of the Sydneys, and their noble ancestors, the Dudleys, Grey, Talbot,

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Fabbriche' antiche' / disegnate' da Andrea Palladio Vicentino e date in luce' da Riccardo Conte' di Burlington.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXX [1730, i.e. 1735]
Physical Description:
[42] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain / engraved by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue ; with their lives and characters by Thomas Birch.

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Creator:
Birch, Thomas, 1705–1766
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
[2], 216 pages, [108] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The heads of the kings of England : proper for Mr. Rapin's History, translated by N. Tindal ... : viz. Egbert First, monarch of England, Alfred the Great, Canute the Dane, William the Conquerer, first of the Norman line, and all the succeeding kings and sovereign queens to the Revolution : with some of the most illustrious princes of the royal family / collected, drawn, and engraven, with ornaments and decorations, by George Vertue ; to which are added, the heads of Mr. Rapin and N. Tindal ... ; and an account of the several heads, of the antiquities that have been followed, and of the pictures copied for engraving them ; also, twenty two plates of the monuments of the kings of England, with their epitaphs, and inscriptions, and a brief historical account of them.

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Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
12 p., [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ports. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A history of the county of Brecknock ... / by Theophilus Jones ...

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Creator:
Jones, Theophilus, 1758–1812
Date:
1805-1809
Physical Description:
3 v. in 2 : ill., plans, maps, port., coats of arms, geneal. tables ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.

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Creator:
Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708–1742
Date:
MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:
16 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Stow : the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham ...

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Date:
[1751]
Physical Description:
[4], [4], 28 p., [11] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The history of London : from its foundation to the present time ... including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the bill of mortality ... / by William Maitland ...

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Creator:
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
2 v. (viii, 1410 p.) : ill., map, plans, coats of arms ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The memoirs and travels of Sir John Reresby, bart. : the former containing anecdotes, and secret history, of the courts of Charles II. and James II : the latter (now first published) exhibiting a view of the governments and society in the principal states and courts of Europe during the time of Cromwell's usurpation.

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Creator:
Reresby, John, Sir, 1634–1689
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
xii, 160, 159-160, [161]-414, [32] p., [39] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A letter to Dr. Mead concerning some antiquities in Berkshire : particularly shewing that the White Horse, which gives name to the Vale, is a monument of the West-Saxons, made in memory of a great victory obtained over the Danes A.D. 871 / by Francis Wise ...

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Creator:
Wise, Francis, 1695–1767
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
58 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Collections for the history of Worcestershire ...

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Creator:
Nash, T. (Treadway Russell), 1725–1811
Date:
1781-1782
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., map, plans, facsims., geneal. tables ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk, containing a description of the towns, villages, and hamlets, with the foundations of monasteries ... and other religious buildings ... Collected out of leiger-books, registers ... and other authentic memorials, by Francis Blomefield ...

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Creator:
Blomefield, Francis, 1705–1752
Date:
1739-1775
Physical Description:
5 v. illus., port., maps, plans, facsim., fold. geneal. tab. 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A catalogue of the collection of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford deceas'd : consisting of several capital pictures by the most eminent Italian, French, and Flemish masters, great variety of Greek and Roman antiquities in urns, edicts, inscriptions, &c. : as also of busto's and bronzes : together with several very scarce books of prints and drawings; particularly of the most famous altars, vestments, chalices, &c. by J. Paulo Panini and others : collected by the late Mr. Talman; the King of France's Cabinet complete : the heads of the most eminent men in europe in 30 volumes : with divers other valuable curiosities out of the Arundel Collection : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Cock, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 8th of March, 1741-2, and the five following Days : the collection may be viewed at the place of sale on Thursday the 4th instant, and every day after (Sunday excepted) till the time of sale, which will begin each day at half an hour after eleven precisely.

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Creator:
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720–1749
Date:
[1742]
Physical Description:
18 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illlustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts